"Roughly one in seven children
within the United States currently lives in poverty. According to the overall
metric, the US ranks 26 out of 29, behind Greece and just above Lithuania,
Latvia and Romania. On the education metric, it comes in 27, while on the
material well-being metric it comes in at 26. The report notes that the United
States, which has the world's highest gross domestic product, has remained at
the bottom of the list throughout the past decade."